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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of German Bittenbinder, an occupational name for a cooper, from Middle High German büte(n) ‘cask’, ‘(wine) barrel’ + binder ‘binder’ (agent derivative of binden ‘to bind’). Compare Fassbender.

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